Ann Niles, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been working in mental health settings for over fifteen year years. In 2019, she founded her independent therapy practice in Millburn, New Jersey where she sees adults, young adults, teens, adolescents, and young children for individual, family, and group therapy.
Dr. Niles specializes in treating mood and anxiety issues during pregnancy, postpartum, and all phases of motherhood. She received her certificate in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Components of Care from Postpartum Support International (PSI), so that she could better support the moms that she works with.
Previously she worked in independent school settings, where she developed and taught health education classes for students (ages 5-14) and led parent education workshops. She continues parenting work in her practice, counseling a diverse client population, and consults in schools from elementary to secondary.
Her continued training also includes addressing LGBTQ issues, race and ethnicity awareness, emotional and behavioral modification, learning disabilities, domestic violence and crisis response.
While completing her clinical training at the American School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Bay Area, she provided couples and family therapy from a Narrative perspective, Psychodynamic Therapy with children, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in an adult community mental health center treating severely mentally ill adults.
Dr. Niles then went on to complete an APA Accredited, Pre-Doctoral Internship at The Help Group in the Los Angeles area where she focused on individual, group, and family therapy in schools and programs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Learning Disabilities, and ADHD. There she also trained to use the ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule), considered to be the gold standard instrument for diagnosing and assessing Autism.
Dr. Niles later completed her dissertation research using Narrative and art therapy in a group setting to help children struggling with social-thinking deficits and developmental delays.
Her post-doctoral clinical work, also in the Los Angeles area, was in a Community Mental Health outpatient center for families and foster-care children survivors of abuse and neglect.
In her therapy practice today, Dr. Niles works from an Insight-Oriented and Narrative perspective while incorporating techniques of Art Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
